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Auction: 18005 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 737

Kushano-Sasanian, Hormizd I (c.270-300 AD), scyphate gold Dinar, 7.80g, king standing left wearing lion-headed korymbos, making an offering at a fire altar, trident above, holding trident standard to right, with nandipada in right field and swastika between legs, rev. Siva standing with bull Nandi behind, holding trident and diadem (Cribb & Jongeward 2210-11; Göbl 745;cf. Sunrise 1018), obverse particularly well struck, reverse slightly double-struck, good extremely fine

provenance
Spink 233, 2 December 2015, lot 758

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